[Music] [Applause] I'd like to start today by telling you a story about a young woman named Christina. Christina is from a small town in the southeast of Colombia where she lives with her husband and their baby girl. Now when Christina was living there that at that time the area had been controlled by the FAK, the violent Marxist Leninist gorilla group that controlled um that area and a lot of the Colombian countryside from the 1960s until just recently when conflict erupted in the area nearby and Christ an ...

Joining us now, resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and director of Realign for Palestine, Ahmed Fouad Al-Hib, counselor for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and MSNBC foreign affairs analyst and author of Statecraft 2.0%, what America needs to lead in a multi-olar world. Ambassador Dennis Ross and Susan Glasser still sticking around with us. Susan, starting with you, let's talk Trump's stance here on this conflict. In your latest reporting, you say that casting this as merely just a ...